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Lunar “Ark” Proposed to Help Save Earth
Researchers at France’s International Space University have suggested that NASA’s planned moonbase be expanded to include both a “biological and historical archive” of human civilization, and also to include a scheme for extending the Internet from the Moon to Earth. The idea is to get all of our eggs out of one basket and be…
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Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams
XhasyXha3 brought our attention to this over on the message boards. In January 2005, Asteroid 2001 DA42 was given the name Asteroid Douglasadams, named for the author Douglas Adams who popularized the number 42 and died in 2001. With even his initials in the provisional designation, Brian G. Marsden, the director of the Minor Planet…
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Space Hotel to Open in 2012
A hotel called “Galactic Suites” is slated to open as early as 2012. Travelers will use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod-room walls and will be able to see the sun rise 15 times a day. All for a mere $4 million. Link SF Signal also lists 6 Secrets of the Space Hotel: If…
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File Under “Duh”
Analysis: Is NASA’s Culture Still Broken?
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Top Ten Spacewalks
This blog appears to be mostly in Spanish, but this article is in English, so hm. Anyway, it lists the ten “best spacewalks ever,” and they are mighty spectacular. Man, I get vertigo just looking at these. Link (via BoingBoing)
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That’s One Small Step…
BLRWiz was kind enough to remind me of the date today. On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining),…
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Green Mars
Scientists are looking at trees that grow at unusually high altitudes in a first step toward someday growing them on Mars. The general idea is to pump in lots of highly-insulating gases like methane, warm the Martian temperature up into the 40s, and let the trees do the rest. Link
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New Extrasolar Planets Discovered
Of the 37 new extrasolar objects spotted in the past year, 28 of them have been extrasolar planets. This brings the total to 236 known exoplanets and shows that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types.Link
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The Earth Guide
The Japan Science and Technology Agency offers the “Earth Guide,” an infographic that answers science and geography questions such as, “Where does the sky become space?” No word on whether it describes the planet as “Mostly Harmless.”Link (via Neatorama)
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Ancient Star is Nearly as Old as the Universe
A metal-poor star called HE 1523 here in the Milky Way has been dated to 13.2 billion–billion, with a B–years old, which is only half a billion years younger than our estimated age of the universe, and only a quarter of a billion years younger than Dick Clark.Link